• ETRI Journal
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.311-322
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• 2002

Presently, optical burst switching (OBS) technology is under study as a promising solution for the backbone of the optical Internet in the near future because OBS eliminates the optical buffer problem at the switching node with the help of no optical/electro/optical conversion and guarantees class of service without any buffering. To implement the OBS network, there are a lot of challenging issues to be solved. The edge router, burst offset time management, and burst assembly mechanism are critical issues. In addition, the core router needs data burst and control header packet scheduling, a protection and restoration mechanism, and a contention resolution scheme. In this paper, we focus on the burst assembly mechanism. We present a novel data burst generation algorithm that uses hysteresis characteristics in the queueing model for the ingress edge node in optical burst switching networks. Simulation with Poisson and self-similar traffic models shows that this algorithm adaptively changes the data burst size according to the offered load and offers high average data burst utilization with a lower timer operation. It also reduces the possibility of a continuous blocking problem in the bandwidth reservation request, limits the maximum queueing delay, and minimizes the required burst size by lifting up data burst utilization for bursty input IP traffic.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.4B
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• pp.255-269
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• 2006

The differentiated services(DiffServ) architecture provides packet level service differentiation through the simple and predefined Per-Hop Behaviors(PHBs). The Assured Forwarding(AF) PHB proposed as the assured services uses the RED-in/out(RIO) approach to ensusre the expected capacity specified by the service profile. However, the AF PHB fails to give good QoS and fairness to the TCP flows. This is because OUT(out- of-profile) packet droppings at the RIO buffer are unfair and sporadic during only network congestion while the TCP's congestion control algorithm works with a different round trip time(RTT). In this paper, we propose an Adaptive Regulating Drop(ARD) marker, as a novel dropping strategy at the ingressive edge router, to improve TCP fairness in assured services without a decrease in the link utilization. To drop packets pertinently, the ARD marker adaptively changes a Temporary Permitted Rate(TPR) for aggregate TCP flows. To reduce the excessive use of greedy TCP flows by notifying droppings of their IN packets constantly to them without a decrease in the link utilization, according to the TPR, the ARD marker performs random early fair remarking and dropping of their excessive IN packets at the aggregate flow level. Thus, the throughput of a TCP flow no more depends on only the sporadic and unfair OUT packet droppings at the RIO buffer in the core router. Then, the ARD marker regulates the packet transmission rate of each TCP flow to the contract rate by increasing TCP fairness, without a decrease in the link utilization.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.4B
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• pp.339-350
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• 2003

The demands of network users emphasize the improvement and guarantee of service quality as well as the increment of bandwidth. As a result, high performance and additional new functions are important features to build network equipments, especially and edge router. For this structure, network processors with high performance and flexibility are considered as a main part of a packet forwarding module. In this paper, we design and edge MPLS router with a network processor, which supports high performance and multi-functionalities and examine its advantage and limitation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.227-233
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• 2003

In paper, we present design and implementation of MPLS based VPN with QoS capabilities. We propose a design architecture of an edge router for MPLS based VPN with QoS capabilities in backbone network. We design functional blocks, interface specifications, detail routing and forwarding information based structure, and packet forwarding engine for the purpose of implementation of an edge router, We extend bgp-4 software for implementation differentiated service packet forwarding schemes in MPLS based VPN.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.155-162
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• 1989

In this paper, we propose a channel router for non-rectangular channels with variable channel height and via minimization method. Non-rectangular routing areas are splitted into 3 parts, upper, lower and rectangular channel. The upper and lower parts are routed by a modified "left edge algorithm." The rectangular channel is routed by channel routing method using the channel representation graph. After routing, redundant vias are eliminated by the rules composed of 3 groups.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.6B
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• pp.588-603
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose an Aggregate Three Color Marker without per flow management which is required for an Edge router to improve End-to-End QoS of Assured Service in DiffServ. Proposed Aggregate Three Color Marker is used with the Adaptive RIO-DC scheme to achieve the minimum rate guarantee without per flow management. Assuming that the admission control for Assured Service has been performed, proposed Aggregate Three Color Marker measures incoming In-profile traffic rate at the output link of an edge router using a token-bucket with a token rate equal to the sum of contracted rates of admitted flows passing the edge router. If there are token losses from the token bucket, out-of-profile packets are promoted to Yellow packets within the aggregate traffic profile. And yellow packets are demoted to out-of-profile packets at the input link to an Edge router fer the purpose of fairness maintenance. In-profile packets and Yellow packets are processed identically at the RIO-DC buffer management scheme in our proposed method. Simulation results show that through using proposed Aggregate Three Color Marker with the Adaptive RIO-DC scheme, the minimum rate guarantee for Assured Service can be achieved without per flow management at multiple DiffServ domains.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.1589-1592
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• 2005

VPN(Virtual Private Network)은 물리적인 장비나 회선을 논리적으로 구분하여 기존 전용회선을 기반으로 하는 사설 네트워크에 비해 상대적으로 적은 구축 비용, 융통성 있는 확장성, 저렴한 운용비용의 장점을 보유한 별도의 사설 네트워크를 구성하는 기술이다. 다양한 VPN 기술 중에서도 MPLS VPN 은 확장성, QoS 제공을 용이하게 해주는 장점을 가지고 있어 차세대 네트워크 기술로 부각되고 있다. 일반적으로 MPLS VPN 은 ISP 에서 제공하는 서비스로 인식되나 규모가 크고 다양한 사설 네트워크를 필요로 하는 기업의 네트워크 모델로도 적합하다. 또한 Virtual Router VPN 은 Customer Edge(CE) 장비로서 활용성이 큰 Switch 장비에 적용하여, CE 를 MPLS VPN 과 쉽게 연동하게 한다. 본 논문에서는 MPLS VPN 및 Virtual Router VPN 을 이용하여 기업 네트워크를 효과적으로 구성하는 방안을 기술한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.31-39
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• 2002

The VPN(Virtual Private Network) is a private network constructed logically on a public network infrastructure. There have been numerous studies to support the VPN services by using different technologies such as IP in IP, GRE, L2TP, MPLS and so on. Among these technologies, MPLS has shown many merits in aspects of QoS, security, and management, compared with other technologies. As an enhancement of the VPN that is controlled by MPLS PE(Provider Edge) routers, this paper presents the VPN controlled by MPLS CE(Customer Edge) routers. The functional architecture of the CE based VPN and operations of the CE routers are described along with the performance comparison of CE based MPLS VPN. It has been shown that the CE based VPN has more advantages than PE based VPN with respect to independency, scalability, security, and complexity.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.37-40
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• 2000

Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a high performance method for forwarding packets (frames) through a network. It enables routers at the edge of a network to apply simple labels to packets (frames). we use MPLS in the core network for internet. MPLS provide high speed switching and traffic engineering in MPLS domain but at the Label Edge Router(LER) there is frequently cell discarding via congestion and buffer management method. It is one of the most important reasons retransmission and congestion. In this paper we propose advanced LER scheme that provide less cell loss rate also efficient network infrastructure.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.65-73
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• 2006

Network based VPN(Virtual Private Network) using MPLS(Multiprotocol Label Switching) technology, called PE(Provider Edge router) based MPLS VPN, is regarded as a good solution for intranets or ext3nets because of the low cost and the flexibility of the service provision. In this paper, we describe a mechanism that allows the VPN users to move from one site to another site of the VPN network based on the BGP-E MPLS technology. This mechanism is designed for PE(Provider Edge) routers of the backbone network. PE routers connected to the VPN sites establish a new MPLS path to the mobile node after they detect movement of the mobile VPN node. The new location may belong to the same VPN or to different VPN. We desisted VPN management and control functions of the PE routers in order to interface with the Mobile IP protocol and support the QoS mechanism. The pilot implementation and performance measurement were carried out on a simulation using COVERS tool.